Word info Synonyms

cut loose

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic, intransitive) To behave in an uncontrolled manner.
To party without restraint.

To act freely.

(intransitive) To open fire.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. Margaret Atwood

This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat. Charlie Chaplin

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. Kenneth Rexroth

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. Janis Karpinski

We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide. Carl Jung

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there; And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare. But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed. And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared. Oh why? Sarah McLachlan

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